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At the federal level, there are two separate tax credits—a production service credit and an indigenous credit—so the funding is even built into the tax system.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 April 2013
A new older people's mental health liaison service, called the Bridging Team, has been set up in NHS Lothian, and currently covers the main general hospital sites of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital and Liberton hospital.
I hope that the minister acknowledges that the amendment is focused on protected sites. What is the point of a protected site if those who are charged with protecting those sites—such as NatureScot—cannot get in there and ensure that the destruction ends?
It states: “Astrid’s Scottish child payment stopped in error when she moved from tax credits to universal credit. Astrid didn’t see the letter notifying her that the Scottish child payment stopped because she was looking after her terminally ill mum.
Committee reports
Date published:
27 September 2019
The purpose of the instrument is to amend the Provision of Early Learning and Childcare (Specified Children) Order 2014, as amended (‘the 2014 Order’) to protect eligibility for 2-year-old children who qualify for access to funded early learning and childcare (ELC) due to their parents’ receipt of Working Tax Credits and Child Tax Credits.
We last considered the petition on 27 November 2024, when we agreed to write to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care and the United Kingdom National Screening Committee, which has opened a consultation on prostate cancer screening that closes on 26 February.The consultation seeks feedback on a 2025 modelling study and on a draft recommendation f...
The response states that a series of “immediate reform actions” were to be implemented in 2025-26, with the aim of making it easier both for solicitors to work with legal aid funding and for users to access it.
The SFC has estimated that the Scottish National Party Government’s income tax policy choices since devolution will raise up to an additional £1.7 billion in 2025-26 compared with what would have been the case if we had matched the UK Government’s tax policy.